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Tony, Mat and Elaine with the Bikebiz awardroad.cc picks up two Bikebiz awards! (+ video)
We've been at the swanky Hilton Metropole at the Birmingham NEC this evening for the 2012 Bikebiz awards. And we've walked away with not one, but two!
It's a third gong in three years in the Best Consumer Website category - after a year in which we've seen our traffic more than double we're really happy that once again the UK bike industry has acknowledged our efforts with the award. And we've also picked up a new award in its first year: Best Use of Social Media. In a year where we've topped 10,000 followers on twitter and been ranked number 34 in the Hedstream Social Brands 100, the Bikebiz award is the icing on the cake.
Now for the gushing acceptance speech... we'd like to thank everyone that's worked so hard to make road.cc the site it is. Writers, reviewers, commercial team, designers, photogaphers and other contributors: there's a lot of people to say thankyou to. But most of all we'd like to thank our readers. That's you, that is. road.cc is all about the community: without you guys the site would be desolate and pointless. So thanks for coming! We really hope you continue to visit, and push us to make the site better and better. Gosh, we're welling up. Best hit the bar.
And here's Tony giving a brief acceptance speech offstage after picking up the awards - a fair bit of background noise, but hopefully you'll be able to gather what he's saying.
Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.
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Very glad to hear this.. Very well deserved.. Congratulations!
Congratulations! Great, little site!
congratulations - and well deserved
I could barely make out a word in the video above. I did enjoy this "speech" though
http://youtu.be/lURghSYeij8
Great site guys and gals, I second this award. Another year in the rainbows eh.
Congratulations, well deserved
Road.CC lot's of diverse opinions and comment but singularly, this award is the one that counts, carry on with the good work guys.
My head hurts…
congrats girls and boys
your standard of podium girls has slipped though Tony
TonyPodium.jpg
It's amazing how quickly you pile on the pounds once the season ends
Road.cc is the reason i turn my computer on every morning
Not the most flattering photo though.
Hooray! Schwag for everyone. Is there a caption competition? How about 'Wake up Tony, you've won an award.'
Well done. Best thing is you don't need to bother changing the site header...
Well done, team.
Someone better get the hammer and nails out. Road.cc needs a trophy cabinet.
Congratulations once again. You can now put more stars around the header logo
Hear hear. Well done everyone at road.cc
Really well deserved, best cycling website in my humble opinion. But please don't ever lose the humour that's what makes your site so great.
Well done guys. You deserve it!!
Three in a row!
Congratulations once again. The content of the site keeps getting better and the interaction with the members/readers is excellent.
road.cc is always open on my laptop and it does become a bit of a diversion from work occasionally but as I'm self-employed I've cleared it with the boss.
congratulations - and well deserved
Spend it wisely
Congrats. And thanks for the cheque.